Gov. Brad Little promptly announced he would rescind the lieutenant governor’s order. An executive order issued by Idaho’s far-right lieutenant governor had been announced only minutes earlier when Gov. Brad Little said Tuesday night that he would rescind the directive aimed at banning vaccine mandates. Little’s second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, announced Tuesday on social media that […]
ANCHORAGE – A federal grand jury in Anchorage returned an indictment charging a Bonner County, Idaho man with sexually exploiting children and production of child pornography in Haines, Alaska. According to federal court documents, Christopher Panagiotou-Scigliano, 39, coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography. He is […]
The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) is warning that extreme heat will strike portions of the U.S. Pacific Northwest later this week, and that temperatures could exceed 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 F) for only the third time in history, in a region where many lack air conditioning. The NWS Weather Prediction Center on Wednesday described […]
Recently Gone From Lower 48 States, Caribou Need Protection to Return SANDPOINT, Idaho— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to finalize endangered species protection and designate critical habitat for Southern Mountain caribou. “The last wild caribou in the lower 48 states have disappeared, but the Trump administration is still […]